Improvement in oxyhydrocarbon-gas burners



UNITED STATEs JOHN n. AvERELL,

PATENT OFFICE.

OE NEw YORK, AssrGNoR or PART or His RIGHT To s. A. JOYCE, OE BROOKLYN,N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN OXVHVDROCARBONGAS BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,555, dated October14, 1873; application filed December 18, 1872.

To all whom it may concarow.

Be it known that I, JOHN D. AVERELL, of

y the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new andImproved Oxyhydrocarb on- Gas Burner; and that .the following is a full,

between the two just mentioned, through which passes a stream of oxygengas, in such manner as to produce a iiat, steady, and highly luminousame, the hydrocarbon-burners heilig inclined toward each other at aboutthe angle shown in the drawing, for the purpose of effecting moreperfect combustion and producing a iiat flame. l

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Fi gure 1 represents a side view`of myburner, partly in section; and Fig. 2, a cross-sectionM of thesame. I

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the severalfigures..

A is a hollow sphere, to which are secured branch pipes a a, havingfitted to their upper ends two burners, b b. Secured to the sphere A,and extending up between the branches af a, is a third burner, B. To theunder side of the sphere A is secured a stem, C, with a channel, f,formed therein, opening into said sphere.

` Into the stem G are formed two bosses, l d,

with openings F and G therein, and with projections or lips ee, intowhich pipes are screwed, opening into the interior of the stem C.Passing through said stem is a small tube, E, the

upper end of which is` tightly screwed into the base of the burner B,and ythe lower end of which is screwed and tightly lits into the lowerpart of the channel f, which passes through the stem G.

My burner being constructed substantially as above described, itsoperation is as follows:

A pipe conveying hydrocarbon gas is screwed into the opening F, and asimilar pipe conveying oxygen gas is screwed into the opening G. Thehydrocarbon gas ascends, through the channel f, into the burners b b,and out through the slits or openings therein, and the loxygen gasascends through the tube E into the burner B, finding exit through theslit or opening c therein, in a thin, ilat stream.

The hydrocarbon and oxygen gases, at or near their point of exit throughthe burners, where they are lighted, commingle, and burn with a broad,ilat, steady, and highly luminous It is evident, from the inclinedposition of the burners b b, that the streams of hydrocarbon gas, asthey issue from their burners, meet directly over the stream of oxygengas as it issues from the burner B, thus insuring their conuningling.

What 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in an oXyhydrocarbOn-gas burner, of the sphere A,hydrocarbon pipes and burners a b, and oxygen-burner B, said pipes andburners being so arranged with relation to eachA other as to Vproduce alat flame, as described.

JOHN -D. AVERELL.

Witnesses H. L. WATTENBERG,

. M. PLYMPTON.

